Frattwirth hints at arrest of mayor over dumps
City Prosecutor Max Fratwirth ridiculed council dumping amendments and warned he could arrest Mayor McLevy under state sanitary code provisions. He ordered six dump truck drivers held and said amendments relax restraint, risking fires and rodent infestation at Wordin Avenue dump. He awaits state health results and prepared to act under state law if needed.
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ROBERT L. SAWYER
Max Fratwirth
McLevy
Wordinevenue
Wordin avenue
West End
Frauwirth
Underwood Talks Aim to Avert Plant Strike
Negotiations between Underwood corporation and Local 267 IUE CIO accelerate at the Stratfield hotel at 10 a.m. with state and federal conciliators to avert a production loss tomorrow. Pickets line the main plant after midnight as talks extend from 10:30 a.m. Friday to 3:30 a.m. yesterday with little authority hampers progress.
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Underwood corporation
IUE-CIO
Stratfield
Amegatistore
eei Ve
eal
Tom Williams
IUE CIO
Underwood
Bridgeport
New York
Philip Koons
State Board of Mediation
Frank Ballou
NLRB
Woman dies beside casket at Putnam funeral home
Mrs. Emma Joyal sixty? eight? died beside the casket of a friend at a Putnam funeral home. AP report states the 78 year old collapsed tonight due to a heart ailment as Dr. David Bates noted.
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PUTNAM
Emma Joyal
David Bates
Official Weather Bridgeport and vicinity forecast
Fair and warmer today with highs near 53. Tonight mostly fair and cool low 36 to 40. Monday cloudy and mild. Winds mainly north to northwest today shifting to variable tonight and southwest to south Monday. Also notes New York City similar conditions and tide details for today and tomorrow.
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BRIDGEPORT
NEW YORK CITY
Altar Boy 15 Confesses to Girl Slaying in Mass
NORWOOD Mass Nov 6 AP a lanky 15 year old altar boy and former Boy Scout was charged with murder after he allegedly confessed to strangling Geraldine Annese 15 ex schoolmate whose nude body was found in a garage. Dist Atty Myron Lane said Peter Makarewicz Jr confessed after eight hours of questioning. He described a planned attack and noted sex was connected. The girl dated him briefly and lived nearby.
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NORWOOD
Mass
Geraldine Annese
Dist
Myron Lane
Peter Makarewicz Jr
Lane
Geraldine
Peter
Peter Makarewicz, Jr
Massachusetts
Hospital 10 Ease Need for Clinics
Bridgeport hospital plans a $100000 out patient department to open in January. The new unit will be run by the hospital staff and serve two groups: nonpatients referred by doctors or agencies and former ward patients needing follow up care. It will house medical, surgical, pediatric, prenatal and postnatal clinics with heart and tumor diagnostics at first.
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Bridgeport
Bridgeport hospital
James M. Dunlop
Duslop
Devon Girl to Become Citizen in New Haven Ceremony
Linda Gray Wordell, adopted daughter of Everett Wordell and his wife, will be sworn in as an American citizen at Woolsey Hall New Haven. The eight year old Swedish girl, born in Sweden, arrived nearly three years ago and now joins more than a thousand others in the citizenship ceremony alongside her parents.
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MILFORD
ocean
Linda Gray Wordell
Everett Wordell
Housatonic drive
Sweden
Woolsey Hall
New Haven
Stratford
Father and six children escape fire at Pulaski Street
Samuel Williams and his six children fled their first floor flat at 161 Pulaski street as a blaze swept three rooms of a three story wooden building. Assistant Chief Albert J. Schmidlin said the fire, possibly sparked by a portable oil burner in a rear bedroom, was under control 15 minutes after arrival. Mrs Williams was at a nearby store buying fuel oil when the fire started.
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Samuel Williams
Pulaski street
Albert J. Schmidlin
Schmidlin
Williams
Polio Strikes Man in New Milford
Polio epidemic in New Milford declared over for days, but the 13th victim was reported today. George Hibbard, 35, farmer of Chestnut Sand area and manager of Westfield Farms, was admitted to Grace-New Haven Hospital with his wife and two children mentioned. Mary Ellen Buckley, seven, formerly ill, was released the same day as a birthday gift.
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NEW MILFORD
George Hibbard
R. M. Ireland
Grace New Haven
New Haven
Hibbard
Westfield Farms
Mary Ellen Buckley
Arthur Buckley
Danbury State road
Workers scolded by Soviet leader during anniversary remarks
Deputy Premier M. Z Saburov opened the 37th anniversary celebration by scolding Soviet factory and farm workers for lagging production and promising tighter controls to push the economy. He denounced Western defense moves and accused the United States of trying to encircle Russia with bases while upholding co existence.
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MOSCOW
M. Z Saburov
Bolshoi
Saburov
West Germany
United States
Russia
Adenauer Faces Setback as Saar Talks Delayed
Bonn reports indicate Chancellor Adenauer meets coalition critics after France rejects immediate talks on interpreting the Paris Saar agreement. French aides cite preoccupied Mendes France plans and say no renegotiation, while German parties press for clearer clauses and constructive proposals before acceptance.
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BONN
Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Paris
Europeanize
Adenauer
Jean Soutou
Pierre Mendes-France
foreign ministry
Soutou
United States
Herbert Blankenhorn
Johnson rejects stalemate talk after election surge
Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, gearing to become Senate majority leader in January, dismissed claims of a stalemate with a Democratic-led Congress. He said Democrats would cooperate with President Eisenhower if consulted in advance, likening stalemate talk to a cold war.
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WASHINGTON
Lyndon B. Johnson
Eisenhower
Johnson
Texas
Senate
Capitol Hill
White House
Veterans March Today Sees Parade to City Hall Green
Veterans Day events proceed with a parade starting at Bulls Head at 2 30 p.m. and ending at City Hall green for memorial services.
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Congress
Bulls Head
City Hall green
Prisoners Donate Blood For Incurably Ill Child
Inmates at Osborn State prison and Bridgeport Stratford postal workers donated blood for 17 month old Mark Caligari, son of Mr and Mrs Joseph Caligari, to aid treatment for hemophilia. The drive, started by inmate Robert Mandell, yielded 51 pints for Hartford Red Cross and 44 pints from postal workers.
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Mathewson
PETE MASTRONARDI
Mark Caligari
Osborn State prison
Bridgeport
Stratford
Mark
Joseph‘ Caliguri
Main street
Caliguri
Osborn State farm
American Red Cross
Hartford
Caligari
Robert Mandell
Mandell
Dad of 2 undergoes sex-change surgery
New York November 6 The Sunday News reports a decorated former paratrooper and divorced father of two returned from Holland after gender transition surgery. Identified as Tamara Edell Rees born Robert Egan Rees aged 30. Home address listed as somewhere in the West. The former soldier said Europeans understand such pressures and he seeks peace and quiet and to be left alone.
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NEW YORK
The
Sunday News
Holland
the News
Tamara Edell Rees
Robert Egan Rees
Weat
Flier 49 Aims Nonstop New York Paris Flight
Max Conrad, a 49 year old California songwriter and father of ten, reports progress on his nonstop New York to Paris flight in a twin engined Piper Apache. The Civil Aeronautics Administration confirms the craft passed Gander at 6 35 p m EST after taking off from Idlewild at 11 37 am. He plans 18 to 22 hour crossing at 18 000 feet and 170 mph, carrying crackers grapefruit and two bottles of soft drinks to inspire youth to fly. His San Francisco wife expresses calm familiarity with the feat.
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NEW YORK
California
Paris
Civil Aeronautica Administration
Max Conrad
New York City
Idlewild
Conrad
tles
San Francisco
Action forecast on primary bill and reform measures
Election of Abe Ribicoff to the Governorship boosts prospects in the 1955 Legislature for direct primary laws. The package also aims to reform county government and legalize raffies and games of chance under civic church or fraternal non profit sponsorship. Democrats push CT to adopt direct primary as Republicans hesitate.
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Abe Ribicoff
Connecticut
Mrs. Ida E Joyce Dies After 40 Years in Education
Mrs. Ida E Joyce 88 of 76 Savoy Street died after a long illness. A Bridgeport teacher over 40 years, she retired 25 years ago and was mother to Helen L Joyce and Louis B Joyce. Widow of Thomas W Joyce, sister of ex mayor Edward T Buckingham, charter member of Friday Evening Book Club, member of Orient chapter No 1 OES and Olivet Congregational Church. Services Tuesday at 10 a.m. at Henry L Bishop and Son funeral home. Burial at Mountain Grove Cemetery.
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Ida E. Joyce
Savoy Street
Bridgeport
Helen L. Joyce
Webster
Southville
Joyce
Friday Evening Book club
Orient chapter No. 1
OES
Olivet Congregational church
Louis B. Joyce
Jackson Heights
N. Y
Henry L. Bishop and Son funeral
Fairfield avenue
Howard Orr
Mountain Grove cemetery
Senate Leaders Preview Special Session on McCarthy Censure
Senate leaders Knowland and Johnson outlined a brief opening on Monday for a special session to consider censure of Sen. McCarthy. Debate may not start until Tuesday or Wednesday. the session opens Monday with tributes for deceased members and sworn-in new senators. The panel had recommended censure after nine days of hearings.
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Senate
Sen
McCarthy
William G. Knowland
California
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
anée
Knowland
Johnson
Watkins
Utah
special committee
Maybank
McCarran
Nev
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